Sartori v. United States

OPINION

CHRISTINE ODELL COOK MILLER, Judge.

This case is before the court on defendant’s motion for summary judgment1 and plaintiffs’ cross-motion for partial summary judgment. Plaintiffs come to court after having obtained an appellate judicial ruling that their property never constituted jurisdictional wetlands for the nine-year period that most of it was subject to a Cease and Desist Order, which is not surprising in that the Government’s own reclamation project drained the lands in question prior to plaintiffs’ purchase. Plaintiffs assert that they merit partial summary judgment having…